The Conservative Collection

February 17, 2018

Capital punishment is constitutional. Addressed in two amendments to the Constitution (the Fifth and the Fourteenth), it is established that one’s life can be taken if fair legal proceedings have deemed his offenses warranted of the death penalty: “No person shall be . . . deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Therefore, state and federal governments respectively may, after “due process of law,” deprive a person of his life.